What is the point of travel in 2025?
Just wait four more days, then you don't ever have to ponder about what the point is.
ChatGPT said:In 2025, the point of travel isn’t just “seeing places” so much as recalibrating your life: stepping outside your algorithms, routines, and familiar pressures long enough to feel what you actually care about—through new landscapes, languages, food, art, and conversations that don’t fit your usual template. It’s a way to build perspective (and humility) in a world that’s louder, more optimized, and more polarized, to collect experiences that change you more than they impress anyone else, and to reconnect—with nature, with other people, or with yourself—by choosing presence over productivity for a while. And if you do it thoughtfully, it can also be a small act of responsibility: spending in ways that support local communities, traveling slower, and letting curiosity replace consumption.
To upload travel photos to social media and have a passive aggressive pissing match with friends and colleagues over who has the more interesting life
>>2851449To see and experience new places? Same point as ever?
>>2851449Travel gives me a new perspective on life, that of a lazy comfy NEET who enjoys all the benefits of Third World civilization without having to contribute anything (apart from money).I like a warm, dry, sunny climate in wintertime. The American West is freezing-ass cold this time of year. I like eating an enormous array of tasty dishes that I could never cook up myself on my single-burner hotplate and $10/day grocery budget in the USA.I like going to random map dots and seeing what nice things they've done with their land. I like the freedom of staying when I want to stay, and moving on when I want to move on. (Yes, I could do these two things even better while traveling and sleeping in a car in America, but the quality of life sucked ass.)And lastly, I like meeting people, having a good chat, and then never seeing them again.
>>2851449Troll the locals, get out of dodge before they figure out what to do.
>>2851485Ironically seeing deep snow is one of the only reasons that I would consider travelling.Food is globalised now. I can get whatever I want in chinatown, koreatown, whatever. I can see what the land is like on google or youtubePeople are assholes here, why would they be any different elsewhere?
>>2851449Getting away from people like you. In my case permanently.
>>2851449If you have to ask, you're not cut out for it
I just got accepted on couch surfing by a real life woman, can't believe it
>>2851449to escape white women
2025 is over, you don't have to worry about it anymore.
>>2852517There's always time travel!
>>2852330>why would they be any different elsewhere?I dial up my Southern accent when I travel to see how people react. Results can be fascinating.
>>28514492 benefits to travel in (current year):1. Statusmaxxing - DMing girls directly on IG is more effective than any dating app in my experience, but it only works for me because I have good travel photos.2. Neuroplasticity maintenance - traveling forces you to break out of your protective bubble and to do new things which is good for brain health.
>>2852330You're a fool if you think a series of 2D pictures on a screen is somehow equivalent to a 3D landscape you can interact with using your five senses. But then again, you're probably one of those anime gooners who prefers images on a screen to anything IRL. >food is globalizedI'm not paying 25 dollars + tax + tip for khao soi in muttland when I damn well know the same exact bowl costs $1.50 in Thailand. The tremendous variety of food found in tropical Asian countries utterly mogs the small selection of full-service restaurants and franchise fastfood joints that you can find in America. The mental stimulation of making a food choice when surrounded by a super-abundance of affordable choices is tremendously addictive, almost more fun than eating the food. But of course, you wouldn't know that if all you've done is panned around a little on Google Street View before eating the same mac & cheese tendies that mom prepares for you every dinner. >people are assholesNo they're not. They're all unique individuals with complex personalities that you as a passing stranger get to see a little glimpse of. Sometimes you hit it off, sometimes you conflict, and most times it's somewhere in between. >>2852673Figuring out new locales is a mentally stimulating activity. You're always scanning your surroundings for things worth noticing. Even if you only spend four hours of your travel day out exploring, it's still much more healthy than full-on rotting and being completely uninterested in the world outside.
>>2851449For me, it's the two P's...prices and pussy .
why is this thread still up mods delete DATED
The same point as it has in any other year: to avoid the cares and stressors of your normal life, to immerse yourself in a new and unfamiliar environment, and in doing so to discover something about yourself through the contrast
as someone who works in ukto not be in uk
>>2851485Where is the best place to go during the winter that you've found? Are you in Thailand like you said here >>2852678 ?
>>2853514Probably Norway, it's nice
>>2853519If you're the same guy you said you like a warm, dry, sunny climate. Norway fits that?? Lol
Google maps is spending 2 hours desperately trying to keep an erection as you scramble to find just the right video to bust to.Actually traveling is an afternoon of passionate love making with a girl your truly love. They both scratch the same itch just in vastly different ways
>>2853379The more you shelter yourself when traveling, the less character development will occur, and the more reluctant you will become to venture out in pursuit of drama and passion. Eventually, rejection of stimulation will make your mind close itself off completely to intense life experiences, so that even when you meet a girl who is so into you, you aren't going to feel much of anything. >>2853535Reality rarely lives up to the fantasies you have in your mind. The girl you're making love to will never be as cute and alluring as you wish she was. The scenery will never be as entrancing as you want it to be. You see some lovely rainforest hills and can't wait to go exploring, but then you're drenched in sweat and harassed by mosquitoes and slipping in mud. That's life. >>2853529I've been digging Maharashtra so far. No intention of leaving any time soon, there's so much to see here.
>>2851449I actually don't know desu. Things just seem to get more annoying with entry requirements and procedures, and most places are becoming more similar to each other anyway. Maybe I'm just old but it seems like more effort for less reward.
>>2855199Head out into the countryside more. All cities are the same.
>>2855199Yes visas and overzealous border guards are another reason why I don't get the hype around travel. I've been considering visiting family in USA for years but put it off because of all the horror stories I've heard.
>>2851449Travel is best (for men at least) when you have a purpose in doing it. example, travel to study abroad, or for business, or if you're an archeologist doing a dig. or you are a hiker and want to hikejust travelling without definite purpose, yes it becomes gay and stupid like everything that is done without purpose
>>2855338I travel to Japan to get drunk and buy anime figurines :^)
>>2855193>the more reluctant you will become to venture out in pursuit of drama and passion. Eventually, rejection of stimulation will make your mind close itself off completely to intense life experiences, so that even when you meet a girl who is so into you, you aren't going to feel much of anything.Holy FUCK are you watching me?I hope this is reversible.
>>2851449It's cope because we live in a world without wars to die in so we have to larp in shit hole third world countries to get a sense of chaos and uncertainty
Moving somewhere where it’s cheaper and taxes are low
4chanposting with different back drops :D
This Redditor agrees with me.
>>2855687I've been thinking about that a lot lately as well. The only reason to travel is when there's something particular you're going for. The crowds are different and people's attitudes are different. So many places are full of refugees from war or white women and farangs attitudes just keep deteriorating. It's like a quiet hostility between so many and lack of respect. Smartphones are everywhere and many people have to record every fucking thing around them.It kind of sucks now. Hard to know how much of it's the environment or my age though.
>>2855719Yeh you sound like an oldfag fs
>>2855719It’s not your age or environment, your soul has gone stale and rotten.I’m a very old fag traveller, used to post on this very board back when it was actually good.If you make the choices to go to places full of hostile white women etc, then it’s on you for making shitty choices.Other anons have said travel with purpose it’s a good philosophy, I just spent a month in Southern Australia surfing pristine meticulous surf breaks local friends with no other people at all in sight. The beaches, were like cold water Indonesia minus the trash. You never see spasticated influencers talking about these places on pootube.>>2852673> StatusmaxxingHow absurdly wrong can you be about travel?>>2855687Ok this guy is a faggot. It’s not that he’s travelled, look at how he’s travelled.He’s rotten inside and tired of living, you respect that?All these places he’s travelled to like cattle, but he never even took the time to motorbike, or even pushbike across any of these countries.He’s travelled like a corporate cocksucker and thinks he’s in a place of authority, Reddit suits him, he probably molests children
>>2855814For an older you sound like a nurealtraveller poojabba
>>2855814>It’s not your age or environment, your soul has gone stale and rotten.Pretty much. I'm in a serious slump and I'm not thrilled with it. I barely go outside unless I need to. I know I need to just push myself out there, but I don't feel like it. I'll do it anyway at some point. I need to move countries again in a month.
>>2852673how do you even find the chicks to dm?
>>2855687This dude just got old, lazy and tired of being on the move, after years of being in a headlong rush to rack up as many places as he could possibly see. Now he just wants to sit on his front porch and watch his garden grow. No different than someone who spent every free hour carousing around raising hell until he woke up one day thinking "fuck this life, I'm going sober & steady". >>2855844The trick is to never let yourself get into the slump in the first place by lounging around your room the entire day, barely eating, keeping the curtains closed etc. Because once you get yourself stuck in the mud, it's so much more difficult to get going again than it would've been to power through the mud and keep going. Keep going. Keep going. >>2855814You're right. The world is so heaping full of surprising, barely known places. If anything, the Internet has driven the goycattle to swarm a small number of promoted destinations instead of wandering freely along a route like backpacking adventurers of old used to do, experiencing whatever there is to experience whether it be great or awful. >>2855719If everyone you encounter is being aversive or passively hostile with you, it's a reaction to your own sour mood. Of course, such reactions only entrench your bad mood and make it more difficult to escape, which is why it's important (like I said above) to never let yourself get into that bad mood in the first place.
>>2858763Screencapped for posterity.And you're right. I've been thinking a lot again lately about all the opportunities I have come up and I keep wasting them or passing on them with some made up reason in my mind to justify it.I still need to better control my mind and mood and what I allow to influence my actions with how I spend my time.Don't allow myself to be pushed into isolation.
>>2851449it's 2026this thread is as useless as OP
>>2851449Acquiring gastro and/or parasites in a developing country. That's it.
It was for wandering around like a recluse and realizing just how fucked up your life was. God damn.
